Two things explain Donald Trump’s incriminating refusal to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin: Russia’s meddling to help him win the US presidential election; and Credible reports that Putin has compromising information on his shady businesses and kinky assignations in Moscow (some of which former British spy Christopher Steele documented in lurid detail in his famous… Read more.
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Fail, Putin! Only (More) Sanctions to Show for Cyberattacks on US Election
Much has been made of the way Russian President Vladimir Putin meddled to get Donald Trump elected president of the United States. The prevailing view – in both Russia and the United States – was that a grateful or compromised Trump would do Putin’s bidding. The great expectation in this respect was that Trump would… Read more.
G20: Trump Foolish, Friendless, and Feckless (and Those Friggin’ Trump kids!)
[President Trump is a] man who barks out bile in 140 characters, who wastes his precious days as President at war with the West’s institutions — like the judiciary, independent government agencies and the free press. He was an uneasy, awkward figure at this gathering and you got the strong sense some other leaders were… Read more.
Comey’s Testimony Had All the Suspense of Yesterday’s News
The media used allusions to the Super Bowl to hype former FBI director James Comey’s testimony today before the Senate Intelligence Committee. As it played out, though, sports fans could be forgiven for feeling duped. Granted, the suckers who flocked to local bars to watch, as if it were a big game, could at least… Read more.
Putin Ordered Puppet Assad to Gas Innocent Syrians…?
The deadliest chemical weapons attack in years in Syria killed dozens of people in northern Idlib province on Tuesday morning, including children, and sickened scores more, according to medics, rescuers and witnesses in the rebel-held province, who said the gas had been delivered by a government airstrike. A few hours later, according to several witnesses,… Read more.
Russia, Iran, and North Korea Making Trump Look like a Chump
Remember the campaign days when Trump used to boast that no country would dare disrespect his presidency the way he claimed so many were disrespecting Obama’s? For example, he routinely ridiculed Obama as weak and pathetic for Allowing Russian fighter jets to buzz US warships in the Black Sea; Trump boasted: It just shows how… Read more.
Breaking News: US Intel Says Putin Has Compromising Info on Trump
Here is what I wrote almost a month ago on this topic: Frankly, besides Putin manipulating his infantile ego, the only thing that explains Trump’s antic infatuation [with Putin] is the same Russians who hacked the DNC making it clear to him that they have compromising, if not incriminating, information on him and/or his family. (“The Issue Is Not… Read more.
UPDATE: U.S. Intelligence Report on Russian Hacking of Presidential Election
Yesterday, the Washington Post published what it deemed are the most important lines in the intelligence community’s report on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Significantly, those lines affirm what I inferred from testimony the community’s leaders presented at a congressional hearing on Thursday. I bulleted those inferences in yesterday’s commentary, “Trump Is Trump,… Read more.
Trump Is Trump, and Intelligence Is Intelligence, and Never the Twain Shall Meet
It has become self-evident that Donald Trump and human intelligence are parallel forces of nature. The obvious reason for this is that Trump’s need to feed his ego — even in the face of brazen hypocrisy or imminent danger — knows no bounds. Hence, any truth that does not make him look good is suspect —… Read more.
Athletes Boycotting more Effective than Countries Sanctioning Rogue Russia
Western countries have been sanctioning Russia for years. Their aim has been to punish it for everything from launching military incursions into neighboring countries (e.g., Georgia and Ukraine/Crimea) to assassinating political dissidents (e.g., Boris Nemtsov and Alexander Litvinenko). Unfortunately, sanctions have done little to curtail Russia’s rogue behavior. Nothing attests to this quite like: The… Read more.